Day 8 – Personal Christmas Video Message
! ! ! Christmas Magic Spoiler Alert for Kids ! ! !
Good morning, MLT Clubbers!
As we’re editing today’s video and writing this post it’s snowing lightly, the sun is shining AND there is a huge rainbow in the sky … can someone explain the physics of that? 😉
We’re very happy to hang out with you for a new morning and hope that your beverage of choice this morning is better than ours!
In today’s give-away three of you can win a personalised Christmas video message. That means that the winners will receive a little video of us wishing them a Merry Christmas (we’ll make it fun and personal) which we’ll send you on the 23rd.
Day 8 – Personal Christmas Video Message (3 winners)
Win a personal, Christmassy video from us!
How to enter:
Comment: What is your Christmas meal going to be this year?
Prize:
Personalised Video Message for Christmas (3 winners)
We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Mona & Lisa
You make me tempted to miss work to get in on the fun, but that three month probation rule… OVER rules!! lol But this is pretty cool, and how many ways can it be said.. “You ladies ROCK”!
Congrats to the winners ????
We will probably grill a ham & cut up some veggies to snake on. Plus lots of egg nog (and tummy aches)
The very traditional danish Christmas dinner with friends and family, not exactly healtyhfood, but i`m hoping to survive it. Lol.
I wish for those who are going to be by themselves that we lived closer, I would invite you over to partake on Christmas Eve and Day for some Prime Rib that my son cooks with sides, Christmas day dinner will be a honey baked ham and turkey and sides. Congrats to the winners. I must say Mona and Lisa you do so much for the Club and members or fans!! I am so grateful this year to be part of the MLT Club. Stay Groovy and Peace!!!
I don´t cook myself, but since my wife has passed away seven years ago, I get frozen meals from the German Red Cross that I give into the microwave to cook. And on Christmas Eve I will have a duck leg with red cabbage and salt potatoes and a glas of red wine. And after that as dessert a chocolate pudding with creme!
Perhaps there will necessarily be such dishes as Aspic jelly (a hearty dish of condensed to jelly-like mass from cooling meat broth with pieces of meat. Usually the jelly is served to the table with horseradish or mustard.) and salad “herring under a fur coat” (Dressed herring).Various salted and pickled mushrooms.
Fryer: Rings around my hometown no frogs more his thighs has …
I will leave this decision until Christmas Day, and then I will take a look in the fridge. So it’s going to be a surprise! ????
Fettucine of all things. I’m actually looking forward to it. Only one of our three daughters are going to be here, so we’ll be having a a small dinner.
meatloaf and baked potatoes
Not sure because I will be a guest and don’t want to ask. But my favorite for Christmas dinner has always been a juicy prime rib roast, medium rare, with all those wonderful side dishes. As for desert my favorite was the mince meat pie my mom used to make, but nobody seems to bake them anymore, sigh…
I’m very busy as an ordained Catholic deacon serving on the altar for Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning so, honestly, I’m pretty tired by the time those celebrations are over (not to mention that I’m not a very good cook). Rather than trying to cook, I order a honey baked ham, and side dishes of mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing from a local store and enjoy that on Christmas Day. Dessert will probably be pumpkin pie.
Mona and Lisa, thank you for working so hard to make your daily videos. I’m sure it’s a lot of work for you, and I want you to know that I really appreciate it. I think it will be hard for me to adjust to life without your daily hello once Christmas is over! You will have a well-deserved break from the daily routine – and I will have happy memories of your videos during this Advent season.
Definitely Don! One of the most depressing things about Christmas being over is no more waking up to Mona & Lisa every morning.
Good afternoon everyone, I just checked with my sister what good night dinner will be.
Roasted chicken, lettuce salad with avocado, tomato, onion and mayonnaise, for dessert Christmas salad (pieces of apple, pineapple, peach, raisins, walnuts, cream mayonnaise and icing sugar. To drink punch (drink based on orange juice with guava, sugar cane, tamarind, orange and tejocote).
For the next day, breakfast will be with tamales and cinnamon milk atole.
Thank you, Mona and Lisa, your advent videos are getting more and more fun. Every day I wake up early to check if it was published.
Congratulations to the lucky winners of the hoodies.
Christmas dinner is going to be ham this year.
Christmas dinner will be a traditional turkey with all the goodies – stuffing, cranberries, sweet potatoes, and green beans. We usually also have ham but not this year… That’s about it. Merry Christmas!!
Hello everyone.. In my family we usually choose one of the family houses for Christmas dinner and each one brings something, like pies, desserts, (puddings for sure.Ok Lisa? ????)..salads..but the “main dish” is turkey, ham tender and roasted pork shank. and lot of fruit… it’s a wonderful night. Stay groovy.
Congrats, Jung and Mark! Warm duds from the girls with the warm smiles! I see the magic went out of the candle and tea, darn it!
My sister prepares the lion’s share of our Christmas meal, but we all chip in. She’ll prepare the traditional turkey and add a beef roast to please Dad. Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes with gravy, dressing/stuffing, homemade sugar cookies/frosting, several pies. I’ll add scalloped corn casserole, peanut butter cookies, crispy oatmeal cookies (no raisins). Others bring homemade breads and muffins, salads, etc. Christmas cheers, everyone!
Hi Jeffery. That sounds delicious. There is nothing like getting together with family over nice food. I noticed the oatmeal cookie with no raisins, the way I like them! Warmest Christmas wishes to you and your family! ✨⛄????
Had to add the “no raisins” after the twins debate last Advent! I liked your comment about finding icons with the right mouse click, but I haven’t yet figured out where they are on a touch screen laptop! Merry family Christmas wishes back atcha, my friend!
Thinking about getting one of those huge and delicious 4-pound, $7 Costco pumpkin pies. What would be good with that?
A whole can of Reddi-Wip!
Yup!
A fork! 😀
Now for a plate (so I don’t have to haul around the whole four pounds at once), and I’m all set.
In our family we all bring something to dinner so our mom doesn’t have to cook anymore. So this year I’m thinking of bringing a hamburger dressing my mom used to make when we were young and cheesy hash brown potatoes. My oldest brother is bringing a green bean casserole. My other brother and his wife, it’s their turn to do the main dish… and I haven’t heard what they are bringing. Then my nieces and nephews will bring the fillers of fruit and vegetable dishes and bread.
For the last few Christmases, we had a roast beef loin with mushrooms, and my sister makes these killer twice-baked potatoes. A Waldorf salad, green beans with almonds in garlic butter, and some sort of squash, and cookies that my sisters and I make, or I’ll do a 3-layer cake if I’m feeling ambitious.
Wow. So many people do Lasagna. Consider me educated. I thought I might do the same, until Tomás mentioned Argentina and I suddenly thought that I make make empanadas. With a good Malbec, of course.
Roger, you clearly recognize the good things in life! ????
Meine Frau wird mich überraschen. Und ich hoffe, unser Weihnachtsessen wird nicht so gräuslich sein, wie es Euer heutiger Tee gewesen ist 😉 .
I’ll be a guest, so whatever they prepare. I’ll be bringing dessert (pie)..
Christmas dinner this year will be the first one attempted by me since my wife sadly passed away5 years ago. It will be a traditional one Turkey and all the trimmings.I always cooked whilst she was alive but since then I’ve always been invited to my dads or daughters. Time to show I’ve not lost the touch.????
Merry Christmas Mona & Lisa !! If by chance, my name is drawn for this giveaway, would you be so kind as to include John, my significant other, in the holiday greeting ?? ( see my previous post about our pierogie dinner )….John is the number 1 fan here !! ( I’m a fan also,but he is the one who found your videos here on Youtube )….John stays home to watch basketball on Christmas…our family is a bit too “loud” for him…he is a very special man !! Best Holiday Wishes !!!
Christmas Dinner will be Baked Glazed Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Sweet Potatoes with Pineapple and Marshmallows, Green Beans, Sweet Yeast Rolls and for Desert. Pecan Pie.
I also want to say I look forward each day to the Advent Calendar, not for the giveaways, but for the conversation. It feels like I am sitting down with my two good friends and having a conversation and a cup of tea.
You both brighten my day.
My kids and grandkids will be here during the holidays and they will come craving our area’s chile dishes. Enchiladas, tamales, pasole, home made tortilla chips with chile-con-queso, and similar foods will most likely be on the menu.
Hello Dennis, excellent menu you just need to add birria and barbacoa de pozo
Hi Refugio,
I have never tried birria and I haven’t see it around here, but it sounds delicioso. I also hadn’t heard the term “barbacoa de pozo” before, but I looked it up and I’ve eaten it once cooked fresh at a big party – it was really good.
birria is goat meat bathed in guajillo chili sauce with spices and salt, it is sewn in the oven.
Our family tradition is to have homemade pierogies …we make sauerkraut with potatoes & cheese with potatoes. My sister & I, with the help from our friend Norma ( extended family member ) make the pierogies ahead of time, freeze them & then on Christmas day, we fry several dozen for everyone to enjoy ! We also have steak & ham….cranberry sauce..and baked potatoes for my nephew who doesn’t like pierogies ( we don’t know where he comes from…lol ! )….There are green beans and corn to help round out the menu….then desserts which is mainly a variety of cookies ( thumbprints made with currant jelly , ladylocks, butterballs, baklava and nut horns ) It’s a day long feast, enjoyed by everyone !! Here’s wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year !!
For Christmas this year, my family and me, we will have the probaly most classic Danish Christmas table.
Danish roasted Christmas duck – stuffed with apples and prunes – and as side dish, caramelized browned potatoes. This is small boiled potatoes, that is cooked in butter and melted sugar. Golden, sticky and sweet. These are very yummy.
The duck and the potatoes taste even much better, with the brown gravy with lots of fat cream and a little duckfat.
For dessert we will have the very popular Danish Risalamande, which is a kind of rice pudding with whipped cream and almonds – and as the topping on this – warm cherry sauce.
This year I am going to cook greek dishes called mezes. You can compare it to spanish tapas. All kinds of small dishes like dolmadakias ( meat and rice wrapped in wine leaves, tara a creme made of fish eggs, grilled cheese and many more delicious things
I am going to a friends house for Christmas Dinner and will probably have a nut roast, with roast potatoes and vegetables. I always have one sprout, to be polite.
I am just commenting on your weather report. Snow, sunshine, and rainbows plus different combinations i.e snowing in 60 F weather is normal in Oklahoma America.
Christmas this year is going to be Standing Rib Roast, herbed roasted potatoes, and green beans with slivered toasted almonds. Then I am thinking Peach Cobbler for dessert.
On the 24th, I’m going to be at my parents’. We will probably have the things we usually have, like potato salad and sausages or lasagna. When we ask our mum nicely, she also makes a pudding with Toblerone chocolate… yummy!
My mom still likes to have Christmas dinner at her house so with her being up in age we keep it simple we just pick up Dillons chicken with potato salad, backed beans dinner rolls and some sort of salad
People are currently volunteering menu items. we are trying to keep it simple this year. Chili, Potato soup, some other soup. Corn bread, pies( to be determined) other snacks
I’m having a good day. The Advent wreath and most of the candles just arrived. I didn’t want to be left out with the MonaLisa Twins and really like the ones I found.
The wreath is $17 on Amazon and the 7/8″ candle set is $6, free shipping. There are several different sets of Advent wreath candles available, but this particular set has a pink “Shepherd’s Candle” and is supposed to be lit on the 3rd Sunday of Advent. The other variation I’ve seen is no 3rd color or a light purple 3rd week, but of which are familiar from youth. It’s all about the order of the candle lighting. Not to boast, but I can literally spot a heresy a mile away, LOL.
The box of candles also came with a 7/8″ white center candle but I prefer a 2″ or 3″ diameter white candle and saucer set in the middle. It should be here in a few days. Again, I’m having a great day.
Since we’re on Week 2, I went ahead and tested 2 each purple candles and made a photograph. This will have to be updated once the center white candle I wanted arrives. The only unexpected thing was you have to melt some wax on the candle bottoms to get them to sit in the cups, but it seems to work great.
I live in western Canada, just east of the Rocky Mountains. Yes, there has been a lot of weather damage in western Canada – and that includes where they are raising turkeys for Christmas meals. They say that some of the turkeys won’t make it to market this year – so we’ll see what happens. We’ll be fine, we’ll have a good Christmas meal, but it won’t be mac and cheese!
I’m going to invite Marie Calendar over for turkey dinner lol
You go Sharon! LOL
A shoe ! With moderation
Now that must be where the old feet taste comes from!
We’re going to have a Christmas Dinner that will be similar to Thanksgiving. Roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, collard greens, green beans and apple pie for dessert. I hope everyone has an awesome meal!
Oddly enough, Christmas Dinner this year will be the Thanksgiving dinner that we didn’t have due to the kids having to work that day. So, turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed taders, glazed carrots and canberries in their natural can shape.
Hi Mona and Lisa! This Advent calendar thing you do is becoming my favorite daily activity! I can’t wait to start the video and see what message you have to share! Anyway, at our house we will probably have ham and/or turkey with potatoes, carrots, beans, etc. all prepared in a tasty way and some kind of dessert. I hope tomorrow’s tea will be better for you!
Christmas dinner is always beef tenderloin roast with Bearnaise sauce, tater tots, grilled carrots, rolls, and chocolate cream pie.
You ladies are so adorable -“smells like old feet” – then puts the teabag directly under Mona’s nose…
This year the dinner will be as last year – just a new edition of course 😉 After the main course which you can see a picture from – I’ll serve Risalamande which is a rice pudding with vanilla, almonds and whipped cream, and it’s with warm cherry sauce – second picture – bon appetite.
I’m having turkey stuffing and all the trimmings but it will be special this year. I am going around to have dinner with my son his wife and my 17 month old granddaughter.
It is so nice to wake up and watch the Advent videos every morning. I really appreciate all the effort that goes into doing them, especially the early morning rise, that would be hard for me. ????
Traditionally in Argentina, with my British grandparents, we had a big turkey, mash potatoes, gravy, glazed carrots, some other accouterments, and Christmas pudding for 10-20 family members. I have good memories of those days, it was great fun and all the food was from our family farm which was really good and healthy. Over the years, here in the US, I’ve had to stop having the glazed ham which I loved, and the poultry, as it was not agreeing with my body anymore. Here in NC, we’re finding local farms with really high quality food, so we’re starting to have some yummy food again.
We’re settling into a new “tradition” now in NC. We have a quiet day, just my wife and I, having a little of several different items. We enjoy a nice wine (Malbec from Argentina) with fresh baked bread, cheese, smoked salmon, caprese salad, maybe some real “jamon serrano” if I can get a hold of some, and mashed potatoes, because everything is better with mashed potatoes! We listen to nice music, enjoy each other’s company and probably watch It’s a Wonderful Life, if we feel like a movie.
As for the sun, snow and rainbow, the explanation is easy, you’re being blessed by the Christmas Angels! ????????
We normally have ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, and pumpkin pie.
We will be having my Sister-in-laws awesome Lasagna, salad and garlic bread. She cooks, so she gets to choose. Now if I get an invite from someone having Turkey and Cornbread Dressing, I’m on my way.
We don’t know what our Christmas dinner will be yet because it’s a strange year. Depending on who will be at our house it will be beef tenderloin or filet mignon, with potatoes, vegetable, rolls and assorted other items leftover from Christmas Eve. But, it has been a tradition to have a large unhealthy breakfast Christmas morning going back to when our kids were young . Our two sons and their wives will stop over in the morning for our gift exchange. Then my wife and I will move to the kitchen, while the kids play with their “toys”. We will be making, french toast, hash browns, fried eggs, blue berry muffins, bacon, sausage wth coffees, tea and Coke Zero. Our big meal is actually Christmas Eve. Normally it’s a large gathering with everyone bringing something. It will be smaller this year with just close family but there will still be plenty to eat.
We always have a spiral glazed ham, my youngest would be very disappointed if we didn’t have ham.My wife makes creamy hashbrown potatoes, green bean casserole , we will have some kind of rolls ,probably apple pie or apple crisp.
Traditionally it will be a spiral cut ham with all kinds of side dishes. Add delicious pumpkin bread, cookies and pies to the list. Food holidays are a lot of work but they are scrumptious. Pop in the Beach Boys Christmas Album for some good cheer with the Carpenter’s Christmas album to soon follow. Since there aren’t any young kids around for Christmas these days we tend to concentrate on just getting together and having a good time with the meal and treats.
Merry Christmas to the Wagner gang this year and a prosperous New Year in 2022
British Roast – my favorite part of the meal is being around the table with my family.
I will be celebrating Christmas Eve with friends this year. I’m not sure what’s on the menu, but I will be introducing them to some of my favorites, like Glühwein and Kartoffelpuffers with applesauce. And of course, I will be bringing my “Brian’s Fresh & Groovy Irish Cream” for dessert!
I haven’t even thought about Christmas dinner this year. Our big holiday for dinner is Thanksgiving, I always do a sous vide turkey breast for the main course and pies for dessert (this year pumpkin, key lime, and cheesecake) and my son did stuffed shells and lasagna as side dishes. Christmas dinner generally is less of a big deal.
The plan is to have a traditional turkey Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings around my friends house with all her family as we do every year, but she is expecting her second child a few days after, so it could yet end up being a microwave ready meal ????
Christmas dinner may be venison if my hunting is successful, if not then Ill resort to ham or turkey, along with potato salad, green beans, sweet potato yams, and kernel corn. That’s a lot for one person to eat!!!!
Well, since the Grinch gave out some over the line cholesterol readings this year, Christmas dinner is shaping up to be Alaska sockeye wild caught salmon, bratkartofeln, and cranberry sauce. Not too bad.
Yes, I picked cranberry sauce just like the end of Strawberry Fields Forever recommends, and I recommend everyone here listen to the end of Strawberry Fields Forever to consider adding cranberry sauce to their own Christmas dinner menus.
The sun, snow, and rainbow together (and other observations like it) are examples of fine tuning, across the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE76nwimuT0
I think we might do lasagna this year. We usually to some type of roast, but feel like something different this year.
I’ll be spending Christmas Day with my cousin and her family (assuming people will be allowed to travel for Christmas). This will be the first time for me on this day as usually I would spend it with my Mother who is sadly no longer here. Typically we would start with game soup, turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, carrots, brussels sprouts (which many kids appear to have grown to hate), stuffing and gravy. Later we have Christmas plum pudding (with matured whisky poured on it) and then mince pies before we all fall asleep – then we wake up and have to wash the dishes! (or ensure you invite other family members who volunteer to wash them for you).
Turkey!
Hello all! I’ve been driving over the road for over 25 years. What I would do is if I didn’t get something for everybody I would have to get home by the 23rd so 24th I’d have to shop. Sometimes I’d bring my son to spend his money. I don’t drink now, I have type 2 diabetes, but my wife and I would sometimes make our version of hot glue wine and sip it, sometimes we’d go around the area and look at lites. Then we’d make a mad dash before Christmas to put everything under the tree.
Stay safe. Peace. God Speed. Stay Groovy! ❤????
Our big meal on Christmas ,The Family gathers for a big Christmas breakfast,
Reading about all the yummy stuff being served up here for Christmas is already making me hungry. Since we celebrate this year in a very small group (actually only two), we will probably order food from a restaurant. The lazy but very tasty option. My girlfriend likes fish and I will probably choose roasted goose with dumplings and red cabbage. A nice glass of wine with this, on the table a few candles, in the background beautiful music and Christmas can begin.
Nothing wrong with taking the easy option! Sometimes it adds to the treat.
I’ll be gathering with my siblings at my parents’ house, where we will no doubt enjoy our usual dinner of turkey, dinner rolls, mashed potatoes (regular and sweet), green beans, corn, mac-and-cheese, cranberry gelatin, and tons of homemade cookies.
With regard to the simultaneous sun/snow/rainbow phenomenon, the rainbow may due to refraction and dispersion of sunlight by some small liquid water droplets mixed in with the snow along your line of sight to the Sun, and these droplets then freeze into snowflakes before reaching the ground. Or it could just be some special Christmas magic.
My daughter and I decided about a year ago to follow a plant-based diet so we will have a vegan feast! I’m in the process of gathering recipes and we will likely have a nut loaf made with hazelnuts and cranberries, among other ingredients. We’ll also have a wonderful assortment of vegetable side dishes – roasted butternut squash, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, parsnips, green beans, glazed beets… We’ll finish the meal with our family tradition, steamed carrot pudding – similar to plum pudding but less rich.
Sounds like a great chance to be very creative and imaginative. I couldn’t do without plum pudding…I’m already on my third of the season! I know that I’ve jumped the gun but you have to make the most of them when they are available.
That is true! I love plum pudding too – so rich and so delicious!
Our traditional Christmas Eve dinner handed down from my Great-Grandparents is Ham with mashed potatoes loaded with lots of butter and cheese, a vegetable, salad and both pumpkin and pecan pies with homemade whipped cream. Oh yes, eggnog before dinner.
My Christmas is going to be steaks, ice cream, pizza, and soda. Nothing homemade. Staying in bed all day rewatching Harry Potter and While You Were Sleeping.
Along with singing and playing the guitar, I love to cook. I’ve usually done a roast goose on Christmas but this year I will glaze a bone-in ham served with au gratin potatoes, green beans with almonds, cranberry relish and a white chocolate mousse for dessert. My older children are always happy to reap the benefits.
We usually do lasagna on Christmas. But this year we have decided to go with stuffed shells. Large pasta shells filled with various cheeses , meatballs, covered with spaghetti sauce. Very Italian. Of course you add fresh Italian bread with a salad and topped off with apple pie and coffee. Yum!
Good grief. I barely just survived Thanksgiving here in the U.S. and I’m already supposed to be thinking about Christmas? Ack! Since the family can’t gather this year, and we don’t really have a by-ourselves tradition, I don’t know. I usually do either a turkey or a ham but I don’t know if I’ll have the energy this year. Both Bill and Jung mentioned Lasagna, so I might try that. It’s a lot of work too, but well, it’s not so much hard work as just time. And very easy cleanup compared to bird and pig aftermath.
Your tea appraisal made me think of one of my favorite Friends (the TV show) episodes which we watch at Thanksgiving every year, where Rachel accidentally combines the recipes for a traditional English trifle with shepherd’s pie, and Ross declares that it “tastes like feet.”
I’ll be going to my parent’s house for Christmas dinner so I’m not real sure what I’ll be having, but my Mom usually cooks a really yummy pot roast for Christmas.
It will always be traditional Turkey with all the trimmings followed by Christmas pudding and custard even with the old tradition of having a coin put in usually a pound now but what used to be a shilling. with plenty of port to drink and carols with the family Perfect!!
Oh yes you have to have some port after the main meal!
Definitely Phil only one or two or maybe three
FULL ON CHRISTMAS FEAST HERE IN THE ????????!
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Brussel Sprouts
Carrots
Peas
Parsnips
Swede mash
Cauliflower Cheese
Gravy
Christmas Pudding
Custard /Cream
CAN’T WAIT ???????????? ????????
WOW! Sounds like you’d better get started cooking about now!
You are not wrong Roger! It’s like a full scale military operation here on Christmas day as cooking for 10! Family time is the best and sharing Christmas dinner with them is one of the highlights of the year. Lots of celebrations and also taking time to reflect on those no longer with us
Today’s video started off so calm and soothing, “breath in, breath out”, until the owl came out, and I almost fell out of my chair!!! ???? ???? Good thing I wasn’t holding my coffee or tea yet. It felt like Christmas morning huddling around the tree with all the presents under it. Thank you, thank you! I love your MLT hoodie!
I saw on the news about the storm hitting the UK a week or so ago, but had no idea it blew some tiles off your roof. Hope all else is OK and won’t be much of an ordeal to get it repaired. In Western Canada the waters are receding slowly, but the farmers who lost everything, thousands of livestock, have a long road ahead of them. Fortunately my area not too far away went unscathed. Thanks for your well wishes! ???? ❤
Christmas meal, it’s hard to say as it has varied so much in recent years. For Christmas eve we will likely order some take out, some of my favourites being a Greek style baked lasagna that is cooked in an individual serving pan covered in a layer of thick cheese and the lasagna piping hot inside, with some garlic bread, and side order of suicide hot wings. In Vancouver we have a fairly large Greek community, and this style of lasagna seems particular to the traditional Greek cuisine, and it’s sooo good. And for dessert, ideally some Sticky Toffee pudding, but it’s a little bit harder to find here. But when I do find a place that has it, I’m all in. On the 25th, Christmas day these days we usually get together with my younger and older sister for a more traditional Christmas dinner at a restaurant. Turkey, roast beef, pot roast, or sometimes a traditional Korean restaurant for some spicy stews. In past years we did a fancy buffet at a hotel, but buffets these days aren’t offered.
Nothing though matches the wonderful Christmas tradition dinners my mom use to do for us, but we get together sometimes in memory of that. Those are the fond gift of memories that will last forever she left us.
The tea smelled like old feet! Both your facial expressions when you sipped todays tea looked like you were taking cough medicine! Hopefully that is the worst of the teas and the rest will be better. Will have to take tally to see what is your favourite tea by the end of the Advent.
Congrats on the hoodie Jung. Can’t go wrong with one of those. You’re the second person along with Bill that I’ve seen so far mention Lasagna for Christmas. Never heard of that but I think I might do that this year!
Thanks Roger! All this lasagna talk is making me hungry and it’s early morning where I am.
Congratulations Jung. Now I am almost a little envious. 🙂 A question that keeps me busy since yesterday: what exactly is actually a hoodie? Something you can wear, but when I consult my dictionary, it tells me a hoodie is a hoodie (very helpful…).
Did you see the video? They’re wearing them. It’s basically just a sweatshirt with a hood. That sounds like a typical dictionary, though.
Thanks Roger. Then I know what Jung will look like soon. We call this a “Kaputzenjacke”. Hoodie sounds better somehow.
Thanks Jurgen. Kaputzenjacke sounds interesting, thanks for the translation.
At least you know what Jung will look like if he ever gets interviewed as a whistleblower! LOL
Yes Roger, I always suspected it: Jung could be a whistleblower. He clearly knows too many details about Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. He must have secret sources. That makes sense. Then all that’s missing are the big dark sunglasses. I’m already curious what insider information he will reveal to us. 🙂
Congratulations Jung! I think we might do the lasagna this year too. Never did that before.
Thanks James. The more mozzerella cheese on it the better!
What I want to know is how do we (they) know what old feet taste like…oh dear my imagination is starting to run away with me!
Thanks Philip! With “old feet” in envision the aroma of sweaty socks after a long hike! LOL.
Right Jung, but the socks still have to stay in the smoky Hiking boots overnight. And only then pour in the tea. This gives the whole thing a very special flavour. We call it “Steamy mountains”.
You possibly have added ‘bits’ as well, a bit like english marmalade.
Sounds very interesting: but what are “bits”? My dictionary says: bits are bits. Well. (maybe I should get myself another dictionary…)
Bits of old sock in the tea was what I was envisaging, adding a bit of body to it. Not a pleasant thought really though!
LOL! ????Thanks for that vivid description Jurgen. The “smoky hiking boots” will give the tea a smoked hickory old feet flavour and aroma, like a nice wine! Maybe can rename the teat English Old Feet, or Earl Smoked Old Feet.
“English Old Feet” sounds good Jung. We can start our own business with that: you do the production and I do the marketing?
Hello Jung.
In my case it used to be sweaty feet after two and a half hours of cricket in the hot summer sun. It is traditional to use thick woolen or cotton socks to protect your feet but the side effects could be rather unpleasant. At the end of each season we used to have a ceremony of burning a particular player’s socks as we suspected that he didn’t wash them particularly often!
I’m jealous of you winning the hoodie.
Hi Philip, yes I know what you mean. I’ve had socks that felt like burning it was the best solution. Nowadays I wear glove toe socks that soak away the perspiration from each toe. I look like I have bear feet! ????
Wow, this thread really took a turn.
https://youtu.be/0XfGCBQMzkk
JP, I recommend these toe socks. They work better than Desenex. ????
Congrats, Jung!
Thanks Greg. Can’t wait for the hoodie to put on the hoodie.
I do work most of Christmas as a healthcare professional so my husband has always cooked Christmas dinner. We are having a turkey crown already stuffed by the butcher and all the trimmings roast potatoes, roast parsnip’s carrots, peas, pigs in blankets, broccoli gravy cranberry sauce. He does a fantastic job every year, we have immediate family around so I’m really lucky and this year I’m off for Christmas Day, and we have a new Granddaughter and it’s her first Christmas. Perfect ????
Congratulations on your granddaughter. Try to make sure that she believes in Santa for as long as possible!
Thank you for being part of the heath care team that ensures others can enjoy Christmas too. Have a great time with your new granddaughter and keep the magic alive
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Ham, ham, ham,ham, ham oh wonderful ham!
(Spirit of Monty Python’s Spam song)
Like Thanksgiving we will cook a feast and bring it across the street to share with my wife’s family.
We were blessed with a little snow last night, so it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
JP ????☕️
Congratulations to the winners today. Great that one of your super fans, Jung, was included.
I am having Christmas with my brother Andrew, his wife (who is a vicar so will be out some of the day taking Christmas services) and possibly one of his sons. His other son got married this year so may be having Christmas with his lovely wife alone or with her family. Sadly covid restrictions meant that many of us could not attend the wedding although having his mother take the service meant that one more than usual could!
Andrew does most of the cooking anyway so he will do the full turkey roast and traditional british trimmings; roast potatoes, pigs in blankets (mini sausages wrapped in bacon), parsnips, brussell sprouts (yuk!), sage and onion stuffing although it could be a different type, cranberry sauce and UK style gravy. He usually throws in a special extra or two grown in his garden. Then it will be Christmas pudding with the family tradition of mixed jelly that I have already mentioned earlier and/or mince pies with cream or custard. There may be a starter as well but again that will be down to his imagination.
No doubt we will have the traditional Christmas crackers and end up making jokes more corny than those inside them!
I will take some stuffed dates that I will make and the wine and beer, although he will already have a stock of booze. As I’m going to be there from 24th evening until the 28th I will take a fair bit to share the cost.
No doubt we will go and see our mother, probably on Boxing Day, who is in care home near where he lives. She has severe Alzheimer’s so will not know who we are but it has to be done. We’ll have to have a PCR test before we go and a lateral flow on the the day at the care home to be able to do this.
Hello Philip,
your Christmas dinner sounds very British indeed. I’m sorry about your mother.
Yes our dinner is rather boringly british!
I didn’t mean anything bad by it: the German Christmas goose with dumplings is not particularly imaginative, but it is delicious. At least yours has several courses. We’re having vanilla ice cream in the shape of a Christmas tree this year – at least that’s original.
It is good to be boringly traditional at times! It is a meal we love so why change it. Christmas tree shaped ice cream sounds fascinating, I’m going to have to look out for it in the shops now.
Hi Philip
I wish you and your mom and family best of wishes and regards this Christmas. With my mom, despite the Alzheimers, I think she felt our presence on another level whenever we visited. ✨????
Like you , Christmas Eve is our big day to celebrate. Growing up , we made a lot of fish along with pierogi, kolach, pagach, and potato and mushroom soup. Since my wife and I now host the family, we have made it more buffet style with smoked ham, pierogi, kielbasa, macaroni and cheese, and the potato and mushroom soup which is delicious. There will be tons of home baked cookies and home made candy sitting around. While we liked the fish, it was too hard to coordinate making it time wise with the other food, plus the family has grown too large to have a sit down meal anymore. So it is “when your hungry, grab a plate and find a chair somewhere and eat when you want” style.
Sounds quite boring to say the same as the last 20 odd years, but on the flip side it has become a bit of a family tradition; I’ll be going to my parents along with several other family members, mum will be doing her traditional multi-course meal starting with melon, then soup, 3-bird roast with every veg she can find, and eventually ending up with homemade trifle, Christmas pudding, mince pies……. And as in the last few years that I have been single, I’ll probably stay at theirs so some plundering of the drinks cabinet will take place. Traditions can be nice!
Hello Ladies,
I will be going to my Daughters at some point Christmas weekend for Ham,???? creamed corn????, green beans, fried okra, mashed potatoes,???? steamed broccoli ???? croissant ???? chocolate Pie ???? and nuts and bolts (did you ever try it?)
Then on the 23rd a very special “Live Stream” from two very talented and incredible twins, with voices of Gold. (Wonder who that could be????????)
Have a Fabulous day and the very best to the Wagner household
Rick.
Little Christmas Parcel stopped in Dallas,Texas to get a cowboy hat ???? ???? before it came to see you.
Same as every year since I can remember … fried breaded carp slices (gebackener Karpfen) with potato salad (which I’ll be making) and white wine.
We usually get together at one of my sisters house,not sure whats happening this year I have family members with underlying health conditions. so hopefully we can get together when things get better.
Not sure as of right now, but I’m sure it wll be something simple and possibly delivered.
This years meal is going to be ham, butternut squash, potatoes, gravy, etc.
And pies!
I will probably make a “pumpkin” pie (I use butternut squash) and an apple pie.
Perhaps I will make “pumpkin” bread as well (also butternut squash)
I tend to make a large batch, and freeze or give away extras
Good Morning from my end across the pond way, EH !?
The Christmas meal at my oldest brother’s with my 2nd oldest brother, niece, her boyfriend, my nephews, will onside of turkey, dressing/stuffing, gravy,mashed potatoes and then the combo of carrots/parsnips mashed up together , cranberry sauce, dinner rolls, wine, gingerale (me), root beer or whatever soft drink for my nephews , for dessert, my fudge, homemade cookies I make to bring, perhaps maybe pie or other treats that my sis in law bought/made… and we all jibda doze off at some point there afterwards, like at Thanksgiving … Our tummies happily filled …????
Wow! What time should I be there? lol
For Christmas the standard turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, etc. I actually prefer the meal we sometime have on Christmas eve which is usually salmon with dill, smashed potatoes, and Yorkshire pudding.
On Christmas Eve, we usually have a lot of seafood like king crab, jumbo shrimp, smoked salmon, clam dip, pickled herring,and New England clam chowder. Of course lots delicious sweets.
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I am spending Christmas Day with my wife’s sister this year and she is famous for her fantastic cooking! So it will be a great meal I am sure. We are having Turkey as traditional with all the trimmings plus a nice piece of beef too.
can’t wait…yum, yum.
Hello Mona and Lisa, we always have Christmas Eve and my wife makes Hot Sausage and Ham and Lasagna along with Potato Salad and of course Pies, Apple , blueberry and cherry. And we will have a house full like we did for Thanksgiving , can’t wait .
Bill and Maddie Isenberg
Sausage AND Lasagna AND a whole turkey!?! Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Lasagna for Christmas dinner but I just might try that this year!
LOL…Yea my father in law is Italian so he tells my wife that needs to be on the Menu…LOL…Give it a try Rodger, I promise it will be a hit!!
We are having flæskesteg (Danish roast pork), rodkal (red cabbage), brunede kartofler (sugar potatoes) and for dessert we have klejner.
This year it will be a baked ham with crushed pineapple.
The traditional Christmas Turkey with all the trimmings
Our Christmas meal will be the traditional one of Roast Turkey, Roast Potatoes and Parsnips, Stuffing, Pigs in Blankets, Sprouts, Carrots, Cranberry Sauce, Bread Sauce and Gravy. This will be followed by Christmas Pudding with White Sauce. All this will be served with a nice wine and not forgetting Crackers. 🙂